I don't know. I understand what you're saying. It just seems like Cancer would be one of those things that you, as a society, would work on, if there wasn't an immediate other threat (which the Cylons weren't for a decent chunk of time). Although that may be it--they were too busy fighting the cylons for long enough that it pulled all their focus onto military, and everything else didn't get worked on so much. I could buy that.
I'd be fully ok with the odd cultural-ness (as I was/am with Firefly), if I hadn't taken the miniseries to present it to us as a puzzle for us to figure out how they relate to Earth.
The Cylons could probably cure cancer, though.
Instead, they just point and laugh.
I just redid Prometheus Unbound in my head with Jack instead of Daniel, and it was very fun. I still had to rein some stuff in, but a much better fit.
Heh. I did the same thing. The big difference was that the fight ended way sooner.
Overthinking the prop and set designs for the new BSG is a dangerous endeavor. Because the choices they've made in design, costume, etc, are very clearly not meant to represent their reality, but to evoke a certain sensation of reality in the viewer. They do very well at evoking this sensation, but because (in this case) it's a bit of the whole being greater (or at least different) than the sum of its parts, if you start thinking too much about the specific parts, the "sensation of reality" stops making sense.
Besides, if you start poking at it too hard, you start having to ask why every single piece of paper in their entire society comes with the corners cut off at a jaunty angle.
Also --
Note to self: Never put Nutty in charge of your ragtag fleet. It brings out her worst dictatorial urges.
So with the big accident at the beginning, hysterical laughter was probably not the intended reaction, right?
ita, I was thinking the same thing, all through the episode. My fix was that Daniel was thinking "What Would Jack Do?", and then doing that.
Sean, they had a president who used to have problems with paper cuts, and made a law to help prevent them.
Hi, Sean! I get to see Emma in a few minutes!
I learned Post-Creative Rationalization at an early age. It's a gift.
See, I'm the opposite on the cancer thing. I actually really enjoy seeing an "advanced" civilization that hasn't conquered all diseases. It seems like most shows want to just assume that all that stuff gets done. Those things are very complicated problems to solve, I think much moreso than things like space travel.
